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MUMBAI: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott today met Maharashtra Governor Ch Vidyasagar Rao at the Raj Bhavan here said the state was an excellent state to do business in. "Abbott said that his country wants a strong partnership with India in diverse areas as business, infrastructure, food security, energy security, water management and other sectors. Maharashtra was an excellent state to do business in," Raj Bhavan spokesperson said. The Australian Prime Minister, who is accompanied by a delegation of vice chancellors from various Australian universities, said Australia particularly wanted strong partnership between Indian and Australian Universities, the spokesperson added.

NEW DELHI: India's diverse set of targets and financial incentives support growth of renewable energy generation even as expensive capital keeps renewable costs high, Paris-based International Energy Agency said today. According to IEA, stability of the policy environment and implementation are key for determining the cost and availability of financing for renewables over the medium term. "India's diverse set of targets and financial incentives support the growth of hydropower, onshore wind, solar PV and bioenergy...," the agency's annual Medium-Term Renewable Energy Market Report said.

WASHINGTON: Renewable energy and energy security would be the focus of the two-day annual India-US Energy Summit to be held here next month. Noting that energy security is critical for both the US and India, Dr R K Pachauri, president of The Energy and Resources Institute North America (TERI NA), said the two countries must work together, both in energy security as well as on policy fronts, so as to bring in some positive changes. The two-day event from September 30 being organised by TERI and Yale University is likely to be attended by top officials and energy experts from both the countries.

MUMBAI: Cooperation between India and the United States in nuclear energy, shale gas, electricity and renewable power will be high on the agenda during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the US in September, a government official said while a Cabinet minister told ET that India would want an equitable relationship. US Secretary of State John Kerry , who landed in India this week for the India-US Strategic Dialogue ahead of Modi's visit to the US, also has energy issues on his agenda.

MUMBAI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today asked the atomic energy establishment to present the human face of India's capabilities in nuclear science to the world and extolled its success achieved despite years of international technology denial. He asked the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) to make special efforts to expand its research and extend on a national scale applications of atomic science in areas like healthcare, waste management, water treatment, agriculture and food preservation.

NEW DELHI: The oil ministry has chalked out a strategy to gradually reduce energy sourcing from politically volatile countries in the Gulf region and explore importing natural gas from Russia, Iran and CIS countries, government sources said. In a recent presentation to the prime minister, the oil ministry also proposed a new regime to manage oil-field contracts. In the current system the contractor recovers costs before sharing profit with the government. In the proposed system, the two sides share revenues from the day production starts.

MUMBAI: The World Bank plans to invest $775 million in clean-energy projects across India, even as it expects that the new government's plan to give fiscal and policy support to the sector will galvanise further investment in renewable energy. "The support shown by the new government towards clean energy is quite encouraging and is expected to give the much-needed push to the sector and unlock pending investments," said Ashish Khanna , lead energy specialist at the multilateral funding institution.

MUMBAI: Mani Shankar Aiyer , who was also Petroleum Minister in the UPA-I government, today criticised the move to keep the oil ministry under a junior minister and wondered whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi intends to take an "over-riding interest in energy pricing". "Does it (having an MoS as oil minister) mean that the Prime Minister is going to take an over-riding interest in energy pricing," Aiyer said while speaking at a panel discussion on journalist and writer Paranjoy Guha Thakurta's controversial book 'Gas Wars: Crony Capitalism and the Ambanis' at the Press Club here.

NEW DELHI: In first high-level engagement between India and Russia after NDA government came to power, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry O Rogozin today held extensive talks on crucial bilateral issues including trade and energy security. They also deliberated on regional and international issues of mutual concern. Both Swaraj and Rogozin, who arrived here early today on a two-day visit, are understood to have discussed about preparations for the annual Summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Putin scheduled during the course of the year.

NEW DELHI: Even as India raised the issue of sale of Mi-35 helicopters to Pakistan by Russia, Moscow on Wednesday offered Delhi major support to boost energy security and major infrastructure projects to boost India's economy. Visiting Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin -the first high level contact between Moscow and Narendra Modi government -held wide ranging discussions with External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and offered support to meet India's growing energy needs and major infrastructure projects besides cooperation in the diamond sector, nuclear energy and defence needs.